Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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When I go to New York, all the skycaps want my autograph.
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I save the rage for the stage.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.
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When in doubt, punt!
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Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
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She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.
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Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
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You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
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You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
